Posted on 10/27/2007 3:06:17 PM PDT by Islander7
WASHINGTON - The homeland security chief on Saturday tore into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government," Michael Chertoff said.
"I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment," he added.
Asked specifically if he planned to fire anyone at FEMA, which is part of his department, Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel rules.
"There will be appropriate discipline," he told reporters at a news conference with New York's governor where they announced an agreement on a driver's license plan.
Chertoff said he knew nothing about the matter until after it happened and that he "can't explain why it happened."
The White House on Friday scolded FEMA for the faux press conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.
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That is a rather funny quote. Although it had been even funnier if Chertoff had said, “I have made unambiguously clear, in (salty pirate/ghetto slang/Klingon) prose, that it is not to ever happen again.”
Chertoff then went back to his job: Getting Amnesty for terrorists and illegal aliens.
Chertoff MUST resign. He runs an organization devoid of common sense. A working environment he created.
I doubt his staff would do such a thing without his okay.
I’ve never trusted Chertoff.
This is hysterical. Their own people pretended to be reporters while real reporters could call in and listen only. It wasn’t a phony press conference, it was a staged press conference with phony reporters. Given how evil reporters have been toward FEMA, who can blame them?
DingDingDing,, No more votes please,,, we have a Winnah!
Bottom line: no one could tell the damned difference between the fake but accurate news conference and a MSM conference. “Journalists” are entirely too predictable.
It was a dumb thing, politically, for the FEMA employees to do, but it strikes me as pretty funny for all the real difference it made.
“Chertoff MUST resign”
I agree. If he were a democrat, we would be calling for his head. He will not resign though because he has more work to do in allowing illegal immigrants from all over the world to infiltrate our Country.
How do you know he is a republican?
What does that mean?
Did he swear?
Was that a slur?
What ever it was it sound harsh towards Anglo-Saxon!
Isn't Chertoff Russian?
is he from Russia?
I feel violated in my own country by a hyphenated-foreigner!
What!?!? No translation to spanish, ebonics, legalese or political double-speak? How will anyone in the office understand what he said?
How do you know he is a republican? LOL
Even though he is a member of the Federalist Society, one does have to wonder. Maybe in name only.
Silly FEMA, it’s only OK when Clintons stage phony press events that are heavily choreographed ahead of time.
“chort” is an off color name for the devil. chort off - means “from the devil”.
Did Chertoff not recognize his own employees? Did Chertoff not recognize that familiar reporters were not asking the questions?
How long was Chertoff a party to this press conference, that he now feigns outrage over it?
-PJ
"I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment," he added.
It seems the Bush policy are moving aways from handling corrections in a cordail way.
This behavios is unacceptable by Chertoff as well as Bush for they tread Americans like a step child as the aliens take over!
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